WILTSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM

Registered charity 1205651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Search and rescue teams exist to search for missing persons or the vulnerable, and items such as evidence in a criminal case. WILSAR primarily cover the county of Wiltshire but we also regularly assist neighbouring teams in Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Berkshire and will assist any search organisation requesting help, if at all possible.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONGST PERSONS ENDANGERED BY ACCIDENTS, ILLNESS OR NATURAL HAZARDS, PRINCIPALLY IN WILTSHIRE BUT WITHOUT GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITATION, AND TO SUPPORT ANY OTHER RESCUE ORGANISATION, AND TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SECURE AND EFFICIENT SEARCH AND RESCUE OF ANY PERSONS SO ENDANGERED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit for the year, with total expenses of £139,881 exceeding total income of £122,754. Consequently, bank and cash balances decreased from £93,585 at the start of the year to £69,610 at the end of the year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wiltshire Search and Rescue (WILSAR) (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Sawyerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BETHAN MATTHEWS
• Jeremy Robin Sanders
• Kevin Whitehorn
• Mark Pitman
• Teresa Hibbs

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE.

• CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE income £852k
• WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY income £4.8m
• WILTSHIRE CITIZENS ADVICE income £1.6m
• HAMPSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE income £151k
• SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTS DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £191k
• WILTSHIRE NORTH DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL income £209k

Side by side with its peers

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